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Re: Bandwidth Crunch is Real? They'd better hurry up and switch to MPEG4. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by fifty nine:They'd better hurry up and switch to MPEG4. Does cable have plans to do that? I haven't heard anything along those lines, but I agree. That would what, drop their video bandwidth consumption to 25% of what it currently is? |
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»www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/1198.cfm
»www.lightreading.com/document.as···site=cdn
Programming providers are also doing lots of MPEG4 upgrades as well. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Well, okay. I know they have been talking about it (one of your links is 10 years old) but I meant do they have any firm plans? Time Warner doesn't even have hybrid boxes (much less full-blown MPEG4) available.
Can they get away with using a dongle like DTV does for some of their boxes? |
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| There are MPEG4 STBs, some have been showcased at CES.
Customer owned devices like TiVo are already MPEG4 capable. |
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 Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2 | reply to fifty nine
said by fifty nine:They'd better hurry up and switch to MPEG4. you mean x264 |
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Da Man
join:2008-05-08
Hanover, PA | x264 is an open source encoder.
MPEG4 Part 10 aka H.264 or AVC is the name of the codec. |
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